snuh ([info]snuh) wrote,
@ 2008-06-02 03:30:00
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a world of fools


"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." - Mark Twain

"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence." - Will Henry

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." - Ernest Hemingway

"A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will."- Spanish Proverb

"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them." - Alfred Sutro

"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence" - Edgar Allan Poe

"Old fools are babes again." - William Shakespeare

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb

"Any fool can write a novel, but it takes real genius to sell it." - J. G. Ballard

"Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy." - Honore de Balzac

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln.

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." - James Thurber

"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them." - Bioleau

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." - Cynthia Heimel


A Tribe Called Quest: Description Of A Fool - 8MB

Ike & Tina Turner: A Fool In Love - 3MB

The Simpsons: Fooling Machine - 90KB

Sandford Clark: The Fool - 3MB

Joe Jackson: Fools In Love - 7MB

The Dodos: Fool - 9MB

Etta James: Seven Day Fool - 5MB

The Crickets: Love's Made A Fool Of You - 2MB

Ricky Nelson: Fools Rush In - 5MB

Lightnin' Hopkins: Another Fool In Town - 6MB

Aretha Franklin: Chain Of Fools - 4MB
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[info]retrofire
2008-06-02 05:18 pm UTC (link)
sign me up on the fools list. My quote would be the one about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Whoops - that's insanity.

Description of a Fool - I love that one
and Lightnin Hopkins - gotta love him :)

Great post - it makes me think of ship of fools

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[info]snuh
2008-06-02 05:41 pm UTC (link)
I want a fooling machine.

The Doors: Ship Of Fools

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[info]retrofire
2008-06-02 09:56 pm UTC (link)
OH GREAT SONG
I LUV THE DAWZ
THANKYEW!

You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life even if you had an electrified fooling machine!

I was thinking of the Ship of Fools with the midget:

The captain's in a coma, the lieutenant's on a drunk;
the owner's in his cabin with his special friend, the monk;
the midget's on the bridge, dispensing platitudes and junk -
those wild and special places,
those strange and dangerous places,
those sad, sweet faces,
it's a Ship of Fools.
The nurse in black seamed stockings, she's already on patrol
for fake fur starlets panicked by the watering-hole;
everybody's waiting for the drama to unfold
in those cold and treasured places,
those old and degenerate places;
those posed, posed, empty faces
it's a Ship of Fools.

Run, rabbit, run, you're the only one that can do it;
turn, baby, turn, there's a ring of fire
and you've got to go through it.
Fun, baby, fun, when the sands have run to the limit
turn, baby, turn, there's a ring of fire and you're in it.

Looking for logic and adventure
down the dark end of the street,
open city, open season, open lips that gleam so sweet
offer kisses like piranhas
to the soft flesh of your feet,
and any man's poison is every man's meat
in those mad and special places,
those sad and desperate places,
those sad, sweet soul embraces,
it's a Ship of Fools
Those strange and special places
those wild and dangerous places,
those dead, dead, dead faces...
It's a Ship of Fools; no rules.

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[info]snuh
2008-06-02 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Van Der Graaf Generator: Ship Of Fools

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[info]retrofire
2008-06-02 11:43 pm UTC (link)
Oh I like this too.
What a great name for a band. This would be a great song for a drunk picnic with bikers and tattooed people. Speaking of drunk bikers and tattoed people, my friend Laura called and she has a new baby kitten mew mew. I am going to go see it. There would be no kittens on a ship of fools because kittens are too smart for that.

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[info]snuh
2008-06-02 11:46 pm UTC (link)
She looks like Phil Spector.

Oh I like this too

Which version were you thinking of?

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[info]retrofire
2008-06-02 11:51 pm UTC (link)
I had no idea that the music you posted was the same as the lyrics I posted. No need to wonder hahahaha

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[info]retrofire
2008-06-02 11:45 pm UTC (link)
oh wow - that was the song - you know EVERYTHING!

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[info]snuh
2008-06-02 11:46 pm UTC (link)
Heh, okay. You had me wondering.

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Fools Rush In
(Anonymous)
2008-06-02 06:08 pm UTC (link)
How about the Bow Wow Wow version?

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[info]snuh
2008-06-02 09:01 pm UTC (link)
Bow Wow Wow: Fools Rush In

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[info]carless_sam
2008-06-02 11:26 pm UTC (link)
Could always play a foolie on someone. Oh, I forgot to at the "geek" meta tags...

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[info]snuh
2008-06-02 11:35 pm UTC (link)

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[info]carless_sam
2008-06-03 01:18 am UTC (link)
While I could buy parallel evolution, kinda, parallel geology? No way they should find a planet that looks like Earth down to the fjord.

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[info]snuh
2008-06-03 01:31 am UTC (link)
Did you know Klingons fart in airlocks?

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[info]carless_sam
2008-06-03 02:55 am UTC (link)
Yes. Or at least David Gerrold said so.

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[info]snuh
2008-06-03 03:30 am UTC (link)
That was part of the first Star Trek book that was released in the seventies. I have a good memory.

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[info]carless_sam
2008-06-03 04:01 pm UTC (link)
Wotan knows, I might even still have it.

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[info]clamnebula
2008-06-02 11:53 pm UTC (link)

Sometimes I just have to pity Mr T.

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[info]snuh
2008-06-03 12:01 am UTC (link)
I pity the fool that don't treat their mama right:


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[info]headgearyears
2008-06-04 12:51 pm UTC (link)
I love this post.

But corny as I am - the first song I thought of was Journey's karaoke classic "Foolish Hearts". And Doobie Brothers, haha.

And of course - that gorgeous Sam Cooke singing "Fool's Paradise".

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[info]snuh
2008-06-05 08:21 am UTC (link)
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Here's a whole chunk of soul - good choice.
Sam Cooke: Fool's Paradise

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[info]girl_in_blue
2008-06-05 08:45 pm UTC (link)
this is a great post.

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[info]snuh
2008-06-06 03:47 am UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]snuh
2009-03-31 11:25 am UTC (link)
Great enough to rerun later today?

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